The console market has been read wrong a few times like when the Wii U wasn't selling well everyone was predicting that it was the end of the home console because of mobile gaming .
I feel like MS read the market wrong when releasing Gamepass so soon . Their thinking was that the younger generation raised up on mobile gaming wouldn't be willing to pay $59 / $69 on new games but somehow we ended up in an era where it's normal for big games to sell 10 , 15 , 20 & even 30 million now. So if you're Xbox watching games sell 20 million on other platforms when you bet against people buying full price games the best thing would be for you to own the IPs that's selling millions on these other platforms.
I feel like MS read the market wrong when releasing Gamepass so soon . Their thinking was that the younger generation raised up on mobile gaming wouldn't be willing to pay $59 / $69 on new games but somehow we ended up in an era where it's normal for big games to sell 10 , 15 , 20 & even 30 million now. So if you're Xbox watching games sell 20 million on other platforms when you bet against people buying full price games the best thing would be for you to own the IPs that's selling millions on these other platforms.